Scientist and educator Bill Nye is best known for his 1990s educational
children's show, "Bill Nye The Science Guy." But did you know he's also a bare-knuckle advocate for fighting climate change? On
Wednesday's Rachel Maddow Show, Nye confronted conservative-led murmurs that blizzards sweeping the East
coast "disprove" climate change. "It's very reasonable that a snowstorm
in Washington that's this severe is a result of climate change," he
said. Here's the clip (starts about five minutes in) and the money quote
below:

If
you want to get serious about it, these guys claiming that the snow in
Washington disproves climate change are almost unpatriotic. It's
really--they're denying science. So, they're very happy to have the
weather forecast be accurate within a few hours, but they're displeased
or un-enchanted by predictions of the world getting warmer. It's
really--it's a--it shakes me up. [...]This thing of denying
science--you know, science has done so much to make this country what
it is, a technological leader. It's improved the quality of life for so
many people, here and around the world. To deny what scientists or
scientific evidence is showing, is inappropriate. And as I said
earlier, to me, when I get wound up, it's
unpatriotic.

Just for fun, here's one of the Wire's favorite clips from Nye's 1990s show: